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• Credit Suisse Caught Allowing Iranian “Rogue Players” Secret Access to US Dollars

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 616
  The US government already had to crack down on one Swiss bank, UBS , fining it $780 million earlier this year for illegally aiding American citizens in evading their taxes. Now, it’s Credit Suisse in the crosshairs for helping clients in Iran, Libya, Sudan, and other countries perform illegal transactions. The bank ...
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• Rule By Outlaws

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 616
  Technically speaking, the U.S. government is now illegitimate. Not in the way most people use that word… like describing the product of a lonely housewife and the mailman, or as a synonym for illogical. But we mean, as Webster’s puts it, “not sanctioned by law: illegal.” Yesterday the national debt, as ...
  10 hours ago

• The meaning of HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS"

  
  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 153
  Meaning of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" by Jon Roland, Constitution Society The question of impeachment turns on the meaning of the phrase in the Constitution at Art. II Sec. 4, "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors". I have carefully researched the origin of the phrase "high ...
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• Expect a whole new litany of taxation as the US government, deprived of the expected windfall from Copenhagen, struggles to save itself from default b

  
  American Scofflaw — Authority: 134
  American Scofflaw House Ways & Means Committee Chair Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures Chair Richard Neal (D-MA) yesterday introduced H.R. 4337, the Regulated Investment Company Modernization Act of 2009 . The press release outlined the three goals of the legislation: ...
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• C. Fred Bergsten—The Dollar and the Deficits: How Washington Can Prevent the Next Crisis

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 580
  Major procedural reforms will be needed as well. One essential step is the implementation of "pay-as-you-go" rules, which require that all increases in spending or tax cuts be financed by savings elsewhere in the budget. The statutory creation of a "fiscal future commission"—modeled on the Defense Base Closure and ...
  13 hours ago

• Article 32 for Capt. Carl Bjork in Iraq—the desecration of a hero

  
  The US Report — Authority: 124
  Commentary by Kay B. Day Capt. Carl Bjork awaits word on the outcome of testimony given as part of an Article 32 hearing in Iraq, undertaken because Iraqi “insurgents” accused the captain of murder. Before we talk about those Iraqis, we need to talk about the captain. People have emailed and phoned me to talk ...
  14 hours ago

• Central banks are to expand their gold reserves for the first time in two decades, it is estimated.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 540
  Bloomberg News reports that researchers CPM Group think that the banks, which currently hold approximately 18 per cent of all gold ever mined, will make the first net expansion since 1988 in response to the record price of the precious metal. Investors are also adding to their reserves to rival those of the big ...
  15 hours ago

• US Loans for people living with HIV and Child Caregivers

  
  Fair Loan Rate! — Authority: 138
  Under a US government program that is launched today, people who are living with HIV and caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children will receive loans for starting small businesses and develop other livelihood activities. Who will get the benefit from the program? The program is being implemented by the ...
  17 hours ago

• Was Climategate another Cyberattack by Russia?

  
  Blogger News Network — Authority: 625
  I am fascinated by what the US blogs are calling “Climategate”.It seems that  one of the main scientific research labs behind Global warming, indeed the one whose data was one of the lynchpins  proving “climate change” was occuring, manmade, and severe, had their emails hacked and put on line.When the emails ...
  19 hours ago

• CBS: U.S. National Debt Tops Debt Limit

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 580
  The latest calculation of the National Debt as posted by the Treasury Department has - at least numerically - exceeded the statutory Debt Limit approved by Congress last February as part of the Recovery Act stimulus bill. The ceiling was set at $12.104 trillion dollars. The latest posting by Treasury shows the ...
  20 hours ago

• Jeffrey Sachs: How to hold the rich to their word

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 580
  With days remaining in the Copenhagen climate talks, the rich have finally begun to discuss climate financing for the poor. The negotiating round has gone on for two years with little serious discussion on financing and many other topics, a gaping failure of a process run by and for rich-country politicians who do not ...
  20 hours ago

• Consumer Price Inflation is What Everyone is Counting On

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 522
  Are we in a depression yet? The number of Americans living on food stamps has risen to 37 million. Food stamps are the soup lines of the 00s. And what else was big in the 30s? Escapist movies. Heres a headline for you: "Box office takings set to smash records," says The Financial Times . What kind of movies? End of ...
  23 hours ago

• The Green Dream: Can Obama Stop Americas Gas-Guzzling Ways?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Never before has a US government been as serious in its warnings against the dangers of climate change as the Obama administration. But Americans are divided: Half of them regard climate protection policies as socialist, and half want to save the world. Can Obama make America go green? There are parts of the United ...
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• China Stepping-Up Diversification Away From U.S. Assets?

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 478
  “Absent a policy shift in China that entails a discontinuation of official operations to resist upward pressure on the country’s currency, China will continue to accumulate external assets and thus likely will continue to invest in U.S. assets… Foreign countries, including China, find (U.S.) Treasury securities ...
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• Travesty of Justice in Shenandoah, PA

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 559
  Six indictments have come down in Shenandoah, PA regarding the “beating death” of two-time illegal alien criminal Luis Eduardo Ramirez Zavala. Two teenage boys, Derrick Donchak and Brandon Piekarsky, from the small town in Schuylkill County’s coal country have been indicted by federal prosecutors for a “hate ...
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• Nvidia CEO Not Above Celebrating Intels Misfortune [Memo]

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 705
  A number of tech companies are rejoicing over the Federal Trade Commission’s complaint against Intel today , none more so than Nvidia. A top player in the market for graphics processing units, Nvidia stands to gain quite a bit from the FTC lawsuit, which will obviously undermine Intel’s (INTC) efforts to extend ...
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• A Pollyanna Christmas

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 478
  “The U.S. economy is digging itself out of a deep hole. You have probably heard a lot of doom and gloom lately, including talk of a jobless recovery, an L-shaped recovery (which means no recovery at all), or even a W—the feared double-dip recession. The Scrooges have a point: There are serious dangers to the ...
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• Time Person of the Year 2009: Ben Bernanke

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 580
  A bald man with a gray beard and tired eyes is sitting in his oversize Washington office, talking about the economy. He doesnt have a commanding presence. He isnt a mesmerizing speaker. He has none of the look-at-me swagger or listen-to-me charisma so common among men with oversize Washington offices. His arguments ...
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• Thirty-Six Members Of Congress Oppose Tax On Trading

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 580
  Thirty-six members of Congress came out against a proposed tax on stock and derivatives trading, warning that it would drive up unemployment and undercut a shaky economic recovery in the U.S. Charging investors for trading stocks, futures, options and other instruments would also drive up the cost of credit and ...
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• What Would Make You Vote for Them?

  
  The Liberty Tree Lantern — Authority: 132
  How many times have we voted to elect somebody for Congress and they, sooner or later, just ended up contributing to the diminishing freedom, liberty, rights, and the increases in taxation, Trillions in ominous public debt and economic disaster that we are in?  Did it really matter if we voted for a Republican or a ...
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